ubuntu 11.10 speakup and orca don't work together

[Justin Harford]

Hey I found my bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/886700

here it is described exactly on the ubuntu 11.10 forums. I can proudly count myself as the third person in the world who experiences this error! Oh but alas, I cannot figure out how to vote for it. lol 

So apparently this is a bug to do with alsa. Does this mean that I have to rout the sound on the desktop to pulseaudio? Could it be that I slipped something and set alsa as the sound manager instead of pulseaudio? I do not remember trying to do this, but maybe it's worth asking given the nature of the bug that I am experiencing. 

What do you guys think?

Justin 
On 19-01-2012, at 19:35, Rob Whyte wrote:

> Justin,
> 
> http://home.thefudge.net/vinux/pulseuser
> http://home.thefudge.net/vinux/pulsesystem
> 
> 
> 
> I guess you did not see the error either.
> Again if you had Vinux the speechd-up package I would say is preferable, it has been modified from what is in Ubuntu integrating updates from ospeakup I think.
> If you are using espeak it doesn't really matter anyway.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> http://home/thefudge.net/vinux/pulseuser
> 
> 
> 
> On 20/01/12 14:38, Justin Harford wrote:
>> Hi there
>> 
>> I cannot seem to get those URLs to work. I'm trying to see if I can google those scripts. I hope I can run them even though I'm not running vinux.
>> 
>> Here's a curious idea. I'm running espeakup with ubuntu 11.10. Would it be better to run speechd-up? I read in one place that speechd-up had sort of fallen out of use, but I was looking at some old emails from the vinux list that suggested that people were preferring speechd-up to espeakup.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Justin Harford
>> On 19-01-2012, at 19:15, Rob Whyte wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> please see the following two links:
>>> I would have paste binned but I am using the new gtk which is screwing stuff up on precise.
>>> http://home/thefudge.net/vinux/pulseuser
>>> http://home.thefudge.net/vinux/pulsesystem
>>> 
>>> pulsesystem
>>> pulseuser
>>> both with 755 permissions     and placed in your path e.g /usr/local/bin/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 20/01/12 14:03, Justin Harford wrote:
>>>> I don't have a vinux install. Would it be possible to just download those scripts from some place and execute them on my ubuntu 11.10 computer, even not having a distro of vinux?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 19-01-2012, at 18:50, Rob Whyte wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> Vinux has scripts for pulse user and pulse system.
>>>>> If you have a vinux install you could use those.
>>>>> Rob
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 20/01/12 13:41, Justin Harford wrote:
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So I am looking at my /etc/default/pulseaudio file and here are my current settings:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> pulse audio system start 1
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Disallow module loading 0
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Is that correct? Now I still am trying to figure out how to add all my users to the pulse-access group.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Justin
>>>>>> On 19-01-2012, at 0:27, Willem van der Walt wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> hI,
>>>>>>> Edit /etc/default/pulseaudio
>>>>>>> You also need to add every user that want to use sound to  the pulse-access group.
>>>>>>> HTH, Willem
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Justin Harford wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Howdy
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I installed ubuntu 11.10 on my acer aspire one, and set up speakup. Now the problem is that I cannot have speakup and orca running at the same time. it's either one or the other, I think depending on the order that I log in. If I log into unity first, orca works and speakup doesn't, and if I log on to the console first, then speakup speaks and orca doesn't.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I'm pretty sure that this is because I have not set pulseaudio to run systemwide. What do you all think? I've been searching the internet for the last several hours for instructions on how to make pulseaudio run in systemwide mode in ubuntu 11.10, and have essentially turned up nothing. It looks like they really don't want you to figure this out. Has anyone found a solution for this problem?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks much.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>> Justin Harford
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